RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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Women conspicuous by their absence in political cartoon collection
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2017
Edited by Tim Benson
(Random House Books, £12.99)
IN AN introduction lamenting the absence of women editorial cartoonists in the national press, Tim Benson offers the Morning Star a backhanded compliment as the “only daily newspaper that draws on the work of female political cartoonists.”
But he can’t resist the gratuitous barb that they work “unpaid” which indeed they, along with the paper’s many volunteers, do.
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